Do you even dry marker bro? I'll never forget whenI was a design student, one of our instructors, Cliff Kräpfl, brought in all these drawings he had done with just black markers in various states of dried outness. Such a fun technique. I used in on his little retro aero Volvo wagon.

yo wrote:Do you even dry marker bro? I'll never forget whenI was a design student, one of our instructors, Cliff Kräpfl, brought in all these drawings he had done with just black markers in various states of dried outness. Such a fun technique. I used in on his little retro aero Volvo wagon.

Michael Do you ever use french curves etc to get those perfect lines or is it just pure freehand skill?

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Thank you. They are all freehand. I explore the shapes with the underlay, not caring about my lines (like in the Volvo sketch image). When I put the clean sheet over top I concentrate on hitting the lines correctly, making only small changes to the design. I did use a straight edge for the ground plane.

I had a spare sheet of velum lying around so I decided to do a blue pencil hoodie sketch. You see that thing attached to my blue pencil in the upper right? If you know what that is, you are officially old school...side note, I forgot how fun vellum is to sketch on. I used both sides of the page to get the color and texture on this.

Koh-I-noor brand pencil extender doohicky, made quite nicely. German. Ubiquitous in school (90's . . . ). Lets you get a few extra sheets out of a Prismacolor or Verithin before it got too short to even sharpen. Fits Prismacolors well, but Verithins needed a one-circumference wrap of masking tape to get their diameter big enough for the doohicky to grab it.